Nearby Stars, Brown Dwarfs, Exoplanets, & Disks

  • RECONS
  • NStars (NAU)
  • NStars (Appalachian State)
  • N. Reid color-magnitude data
  • NStED
  • Burgasser's T dwarf page
  • Kirkpatrick's Dwarf Archive
  • Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia
  • exoplanets.org (with Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets)
  • circumstellardisks.org

    Stellar Clusters & Associations

  • WEBDA Open Cluster Database
  • Dias et al. Open Cluster Database
  • IAU Division VII (Galactic System)
  • IAU Commission 37: Star Clusters and Associations

    Binary/Multiple Stars

  • DEBCat: John Southworth's catalogue of well-studied detached eclipsing binaries
  • USNO Catalog of Visual Binary Orbits
  • Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS)
  • 9th Catalog of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (SB9)

    Spectral Types

  • Mamajek's comments on dwarf and subgiant MK spectral standards ("which MK spectral standards should I use?")
  • Gray's Digitial Spectral Classification Atlas
  • Keenan MK Spectra Types for Cooler Stars
  • Garrison MK Anchor Points
  • "Fundamental stellar photometry for standards of spectral type on the revised system of the Yerkes spectral atlas ", Johnson & Morgan 1953 (JM53)
  • "A standard stellar spectral sequence in the red/near-infrared - Classes K5 to M9", Kirkpatrick, Henry, McCarthy 1991 (KHM91)
  • "Contemporary optical spectral classification of the OB stars - A digital atlas", Walborn & Fitzpatrick 1990
  • "A Unified Near-Infrared Spectral Classification Scheme for T Dwarfs", Burgasser et al. 2006
  • "Near-Infrared Classification Spectroscopy: H-Band Spectra of Fundamental MK Standards", Meyer et al. 1998
  • Spectral Standards in the Red (UMass)
  • Librerias de espectros estelares (UCM)
  • Keenan & McNeil (1976) "At Atlas of Spectra of the Cooler Stars" (text): hard to find, scanned in here.

    Stellar Evolution & Atmospheres (Models, Tracks, Isochrones, Data)

  • TYCHO stellar evolution code- ASU AST 522 course
  • Padova group evolutionary tracks & isochrones (Bressan, Girardi, Marigo, Bertelli et al.), PARAM Bayesian mass/age estimator
  • Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database (Dotter+ 2008)
  • Yale-Yonsei Stellar Models (Yi et al. 2003)
  • Geneva Stellar Evolution Models
  • Lionel Siess's Tools for Observers
  • Francesca D'Antona's Stellar Evolution Page
  • MARCS stellar atmospheres
  • Lyon atmosphere models
  • France Allard's model atmospheres and synthetic spectra (simulator)
  • Pierre Pergeron's white dwarf cooling models
  • Wichita State Opacities

    Stellar Evolution & Atmospheres (Papers)

  • Seaton et al. (1992) "The Opacity Project - computation of atomic data"
  • Rogers & Iglesias (1992) "Rosseland mean opacities for variable compositions"
  • Rogers & Iglesias (1992) "Radiative atomic Rosseland mean opacity tables"
  • Rogers & Iglesias (1996) "Updated OPAL Opacities"
  • Alexander & Ferguson (1994) "Low-temperature Rosseland opacities"
  • Rogers & Nayfonov (2002) "Updated and expanded OPAL EOS Tables"
  • Seaton & Badnell (2004) "A comparison of Rosseland-mean opacities from OP and OPAL"
  • Ferguson et al. (2005) "Low-temperature opacities" (500-30,000K)
  • Mayer & Duschl (2005) "Rosseland and Planck mean opacities for primordial matter"
  • Bahcall et al. (2005) "New solar opacities, abundances, helioseismology, and neutrino fluxes"
  • Badnell et al. (2005) "Updated opacities from the Opacity Project"
  • Seaton (2005) "Opacity Project data on CD for mean opacities and radiative accelerations"
  • Sharp & Burrows (2007) "Atomic and molecular opacities for brown dwarf and giant planet atmospheres"
  • Cassisi et al. (2008) "Updated electron-conduction opacities: The impact on low-mass stellar models"
  • Freedman, Marley, & Lodders (2008) "Line and mean opacities for ultracool dwarfs and extrasolar planets"

    Astronomy/Astrophysics Journals & Literature

  • Wolbach Library (CfA)
  • List of Journals
  • ADS
  • Astro-PH Preprint Server
  • Astronomical Journal (AJ)
  • Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
  • Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
  • MNRAS
  • Publ. of the Astron. Soc. of the Pacific (PASP)
  • Publ. of the Astron. Soc. of Japan (PASJ)
  • Astronomische Nachrichten (AN)

    Astronomical Catalogs/Databases

  • Vizier
  • Vizier new catalogs
  • Vizier most popular catalogs
  • SIMBAD
  • NStED
  • SkyView
  • PanSTARRS
  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS)
  • Asiago Database on Photometric Systems
  • Extinction in Different Bandpasses
  • Schlegel Dust & Reddening Maps
  • Astronomical Almanac - Astronomical Constants
  • DASCH - Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard
  • Keck Observatory Archive (KOA)
  • US Virtual Observatory
  • STILTS - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library Tool Set
  • Digitized Sky Survey Plate Finder (STSci)

    Astrometry

  • USNO Catalog Information and Recommendations
  • ESA Hipparcos
  • Astrographic Catalogue (AC 2000.2)
  • USNO Flagstaff Finder Chart Service and help (USNO-B1.0 now available)
  • COSMOS Catalog
  • Guide Star Catalog (GSC) 2.0 Catalog
  • Lick Northern Proper Motion (NPM) program
  • USNO CCD Astrometric Catalog (UCAC)
  • Besancon Galaxy Model
  • astrometry.net

    Spitzer Space Telescope

  • Spitzer
  • FEPS
  • GLIMPSE

    Astronomy News

  • Astronomy Magazine
  • space.com
  • Sky & Telescope
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

    Astronomy Organizations

  • International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  • American Astronomical Society (AAS)
  • AAAP
  • Rochester Academy of Science, Astronomy Section

    Books

  • The Virial Theorem in Stellar Astrophysics by Collins

    Software

  • Python Primer (Rich Sarkis & BCC Wiki)
  • DS9: DS9 regions formats
  • ACP Observatory Control Software
  • PRISM software
  • IRAF
  • CCDware: CCDautopilot
  • Lotus's polynomial regression data fit

  • Sun

  • Basic Astronomical Data for the Sun (EEM)
  • The Sun in Time: Activity & Environment: living review by Manuel Gudel
  • NOAO Current Solar Data
  • Solar Data Analysis Center @ Goddard
  • Solar X-ray data: GOES Solar X-ray Imager

    Planets

  • USNO Geocentric Positions of Major Solar System Objects and Bright Stars
  • Planetary Rings Node (SETI) - planet + moon ephemerides
  • LAMBDA - Coordinate Conversions (Goddard)
  • Equatorial/Ecliptic Coordinates Calculator - Frosty Drew Obs

    Ethnoastronomy, Historial Astronomical, Stellar Nomenclature

  • Bayer (1603) Uranometria
  • Thayer's notes on "Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning" by Richard Hinckley Allen
  • Gary Thompson's notes on "Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning" by Richard Hinckley Allen
  • Gary Thompson's "Studies of Occidental Constellations and Star Names to the Classical Period: An Annotated Bibliography"
  • Arabic star names by Moh'd Odeh
  • James Kaler's notes on star names
  • Polynesian star names
  • Books by Paul Kunitzsch
  • Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (JAHH)
  • Bright Star Catalog 2nd Ed. (1940) Appendix 5: Index to Star Names
  • Historical Celestial Atlases on the WWW
  • Steven Gibson's list of star names
  • Chris Dolan's list of star names
  • Knobel (1895): "On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calnedarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket"
  • Hoffleit (1979): "Discordances in Star Designations"
  • Rogers (1998a): "Origins of the Ancient Constellations: I. The Mesopotamian Traditions"
  • Rogers (1998b): "Origins of the Ancient Constellations: II. The Mediterranean Traditions"
  • Werner (1912): "Note on Bantu Star-Names"
  • Best (1922): "The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical"
  • Becvar (1964) "Atlas of the Heavens II" (Table II: Names of Stars): cover page, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6


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